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Your hyperlocal cafe - next Social Media Cafe announced
The next Social Media Cafe will be held at the BBC Manchester and will feature a loose 'hyperlocal' theme - with a special guest speaker. Check out the event listing page.
Hyperlocal is an area that's particularly relevant of late in Manchester. Wikipedia has an interesting definition, but simply, hyperlocal is all about the growing movement to make content and data much more centred on resident of a geographical location. This includes hyperlocal news, research and publication of hyperlocal data, tools to pull these together (aggregators) and people who work together to make it happen.
Read more about some of the exciting hyperlocal activities are already taking place in Manchester.
Guest speaker: Chris Taggart, CountCulture and Openly Local and the Open Election Data project.
Linked to the theme of hyperlocal and open data, our special guest this month is Chris Taggart (@countculture), the developer behind OpenlyLocal.com which describes itself as a local government version of TheyWorkForYou. OpenlyLocal aims to make local public data open and accessible and, with the impending local government elections, they've launched the Open Election Data project.
Until now, there has never been a central or open record of local election results in the UK. The Open Election Data project aims to change that by helping local government open up their election results for free, using standards-based approaches to turn them into "linked data" - this means users can view the data, interact with it and, in the case of local authorities, actually pull it back into their own website.
Hyperlocal is an area that's particularly relevant of late in Manchester. Wikipedia has an interesting definition, but simply, hyperlocal is all about the growing movement to make content and data much more centred on resident of a geographical location. This includes hyperlocal news, research and publication of hyperlocal data, tools to pull these together (aggregators) and people who work together to make it happen.
Read more about some of the exciting hyperlocal activities are already taking place in Manchester.
Guest speaker: Chris Taggart, CountCulture and Openly Local and the Open Election Data project.
Linked to the theme of hyperlocal and open data, our special guest this month is Chris Taggart (@countculture), the developer behind OpenlyLocal.com which describes itself as a local government version of TheyWorkForYou. OpenlyLocal aims to make local public data open and accessible and, with the impending local government elections, they've launched the Open Election Data project.
Until now, there has never been a central or open record of local election results in the UK. The Open Election Data project aims to change that by helping local government open up their election results for free, using standards-based approaches to turn them into "linked data" - this means users can view the data, interact with it and, in the case of local authorities, actually pull it back into their own website.
The project is endorsed by the DCLG's Local Public Data Panel and was presented at the last localgovcamp, a barcamp for local government digital types. Chris will be talking in detail about the project. Read more at the countculture blog.
Donate please!
As regular attendees will know, the Social Media Cafe is an entirely free event, run by volunteers and through the kindness of the community in helping spread the word. There's no move to change that anytime soon and, although we have been approached by potential sponsors, the strings attached to that funding can make it difficult to accept. We also probably need a community-wide discussion of whether this is something to explore.
In the meantime, we'd like to ask for some donations to cover the cost of Countculture's visit to speak to the cafe. Usually, about 80+ people sign-up as potential attendees for the Social Media Cafe - and if everyone donated a couple of quid, we'd easily cover the cost of this and other potentially exciting speakers. To facilitate this, we've put a PayPal donate button on the event and we'd really like you to consider donating. Everything will be transparently reported back through this site and we're open to ideas for any additional sources of funding, or what we should use it for.Finally, while the event is usually completely free-form, we're tweaking the format slightly as an experiment to see if we can get some focus to a couple of the sessions. Of course, there's still space to propose other sessions, within or without the theme.
Donate here now.
We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions or comments, please drop a note on this blog or on the forum.
Donate please!
As regular attendees will know, the Social Media Cafe is an entirely free event, run by volunteers and through the kindness of the community in helping spread the word. There's no move to change that anytime soon and, although we have been approached by potential sponsors, the strings attached to that funding can make it difficult to accept. We also probably need a community-wide discussion of whether this is something to explore.
In the meantime, we'd like to ask for some donations to cover the cost of Countculture's visit to speak to the cafe. Usually, about 80+ people sign-up as potential attendees for the Social Media Cafe - and if everyone donated a couple of quid, we'd easily cover the cost of this and other potentially exciting speakers. To facilitate this, we've put a PayPal donate button on the event and we'd really like you to consider donating. Everything will be transparently reported back through this site and we're open to ideas for any additional sources of funding, or what we should use it for.Finally, while the event is usually completely free-form, we're tweaking the format slightly as an experiment to see if we can get some focus to a couple of the sessions. Of course, there's still space to propose other sessions, within or without the theme.
Donate here now.
We look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions or comments, please drop a note on this blog or on the forum.
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